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1. Exploring Sustainable Development in Latin America

   Revista Land Lines
   Maio 2024
   By Carina Arvizu Machado, May 14, 2024

   Addressing poverty, climate change, and other threats to Latin American settlements

2. El escritorio del alcalde

   Fomentar la resiliencia ante el cambio climático en Sierra Leona
   Revista Land Lines
   Janeiro 2023
   Por Anthony Flint

   La alcaldesa Yvonne Denise Aki-Sawyerr asumió su cargo en Freetown, Sierra Leona, en mayo de 2018, después de desempeñarse como jefa del Ayuntamiento de la ciudad de Freetown. La profesional de las...

3. Mayor’s Desk: Cultivating Climate Resilience in Sierra Leone

   Revista Land Lines
   Novembro 2022
   By Anthony Flint, November 10, 2022

   Freetown, Sierra Leone, is one of seven cities around the world that have appointed chief heat officers as part of a global effort to invest in a climate-resilient future. Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr...

4. Case Study: Post-Disaster Recovery of Public Housing in Galveston, Texas

   An Opportunity for Whom?
   Outro
   Outubro 2019
   Jane Rongerude and Sara Hamideh

   This case study highlights post-disaster challenges and opportunities, encouraging readers to ask who benefits from recovery efforts and who bears the costs.

5. Case Study: Informal Settlements and Rights in Conflict

   An Inquiry Case of Guryong Village Land Development in Seoul, South Korea
   Outro
   Outubro 2018
   Jongwoong Kim

   This inquiry case focuses on the complicated decision-making process of urban development in Seoul, South Korea. How can a controversial slum development project be best planned?

6. Housing Affordability in Chinese Cities

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Abril 2020
   Li Sun

   Over the past decade, house prices have kept soaring in Chinese cities, making housing affordability one of the biggest social and political issues in urban China. Existing research on housing...

7. Urban Land Value Capture in São Paulo, Addis Ababa, and Hyderabad

   Differing Interpretations, Equity Impacts, and Enabling Conditions
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Janeiro 2020
   Anjali Mahendra, Robin King, Erin Gray, Maria Hart, Laura Azeredo, Luana Betti, Surya Prakash, Amartya Deb, Elleni Ashebir, and Asmaa Ibrahim

   This paper presents analysis of the fiscal and equity impacts of urban land value capture instruments based on three case studies from the global south. These include the Lideta redevelopment in...

8. Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World

   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Maio 2014
   Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn

   The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in urban areas. Big cities generate the most dynamic economic development, the strongest links to the global...

9. Regularización de asentamientos informales en América Latina

   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Outubro 2011
   Edésio Fernandes

   In large Latin American cities the number of dwellings in informal settlements ranges from one-tenth to one-third of urban residences. These informal settlements are caused by low income, unrealistic...

10. Regularização de Assentamentos Informais na América Latina

    Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
    Outubro 2011
    Edésio Fernandes

    In large Latin American cities the number of dwellings in informal settlements ranges from one-tenth to one-third of urban residences. These informal settlements are caused by low income, unrealistic...